He's referring to ISPs NATing off their customers, not customers being restricted by their own routers. Though honestly, I've never heard of an ISP doing this where I live (Ontario, Canada)... Maybe I just haven't been paying attention. Suffice it to say that if my ISP does it, they'll probably be losing me as a customer.
Yes, but your argument is fundamentally flawed in that VeriSign is a corporation not created to monitor and improve the internet, VeriSign is, like most corporations, created to generate profit for itself and improve its value for its shareholders.
Remember, they were the ones who wanted to "commercialize" the root DNS servers and take them "out of the hands of the academics".
As said above, OSDN *HAS* open sourced SourceForge. You can obtain it at the Alexandria Development Project on SourceForge. Please try to do some research prior to saying things like this.
That said, it is true that like many open source projects, SourceForge can only be used for open source software development. For commercial, closed source development using the SourceForge system, try SourceForge Enterprise Edition from VA Software, the original developers of SourceForge.
Most GNU software, including some libraries, is covered by the ordinary GNU General Public License. This license, the GNU Lesser General Public License, applies to certain designated libraries, and is quite different from the ordinary General Public License. We use this license for certain libraries in order to permit linking those libraries into non-free programs.
When a program is linked with a library, whether statically or using a shared library, the combination of the two is legally speaking a combined work, a derivative of the original library. The ordinary General Public License therefore permits such linking only if the entire combination fits its criteria of freedom. The Lesser General Public License permits more lax criteria for linking other code with the library.
We call this license the "Lesser" General Public License because it does Less to protect the user's freedom than the ordinary General Public License. It also provides other free software developers Less of an advantage over competing non-free programs. These disadvantages are the reason we use the ordinary General Public License for many libraries. However, the Lesser license provides advantages in certain special circumstances.
For example, on rare occasions, there may be a special need to encourage the widest possible use of a certain library, so that it becomes a de-facto standard. To achieve this, non-free programs must be allowed to use the library. A more frequent case is that a free library does the same job as widely used non-free libraries. In this case, there is little to gain by limiting the free library to free software only, so we use the Lesser General Public License.
In other cases, permission to use a particular library in non-free programs enables a greater number of people to use a large body of free software. For example, permission to use the GNU C Library in non-free programs enables many more people to use the whole GNU operating system, as well as its variant, the GNU/Linux operating system.
Although the Lesser General Public License is Less protective of the users' freedom, it does ensure that the user of a program that is linked with the Library has the freedom and the wherewithal to run that program using a modified version of the Library.
Interesting thing, I've heard there's a law here in Canada that prevents caffeine from being placed in beverages that are not "darkly coloured". I thought it was a joke but I look at the can of Mountain Dew next to me and lo and behold, no caffeine in the ingredients.
Which is probably a good thing, so we can at least have a little more choice in non-caffeinated pop than the horrible tasting non-caffeine Coke or Pepsi.
Lord knows we couldn't have executives to blame for poor business decisions and layoffs of developers, or marketing to blame for pressure to release a product before Christmas, or management to blame for creating a poor work environment...
Hi, I'm Canadian. Seen Bowling For Columbine recently? Interesting how the most gun deaths, by far, come from the US.
In answering your question, am I worried about a gunman walking into the McDonald's near where I live, my response would be "not in the least". And I'll have to give Michael Moore credit for this one; your media plays a large part in it. Living near the border, I get a lot of American television stations, and all of their news programs seem to start off with shootings or some form of violence. Honestly, I haven't watched the local news lately, but I doubt I'd be seeing much of that.
Nonetheless, I object to your saying that a society without the Second Amendment translates into a "restrictive, totalitarian, authoritative government," and that said society would be your only alternative from living in the United States. We're democratic here, we have free health care (though it sucks), we elect our own leaders, and yes, you can obtain guns with proper licensing. The only thing is, we don't generally think of having the guns there for use against other human beings (at least, not any of the general population that I know). The very point of a democratic system is that if we don't like our leadership we vote them out or break the law if we can't. For example, if we needed weapons to fight a corrupt dictatorship that had taken over our government, we'd get them one way or another, since likely, even if we had a law or constitutional guarantee that we could obtain one, said dictator would probably repeal it.
Anyway, rant over. There's a lot wrong with your argument there, IMHO. And I personally don't need an automatic weapon to feel safe.
Oh, come on. They're just saying that they may or may not use your input, and don't have to pay you for it. It's this little thing called COMMON SENSE. It's not even written in legalese!
What, in that agreement, specifies that you are restricted from doing something?
Their code is already out there. Identifying what it is will not "make it public", since, allegedly, it is already public and being distributed with Linux.
This means that SCO can continue to say, "You have our code, but we're not telling you what you stole, and you still have to pay us for it."
Linux users aren't getting any value from paying the licence fee. The only thing they're getting is a promise not to be sued.
What prevents someone who's being sued for having SCO code from saying, in closed court, of course, "OK, we'll replace it"? And then, perhaps, release their changed code to the public, not necessarily identifying the SCO code but just showing possible replacements inside Linux that people could place?
I just wait for them to sue a Linux end-user... should be fun.
I disagree. The Winamp 5 beta is basically Winamp 2 with modern skin support, a media library, and several new add-ons. Basically, Nullsoft listened to what people said when they released Winamp3 (basically that it was a huge RAM hog and was way too bloated), and took most of the good features of Winamp3 and merged them back into Winamp 2. Hence, Winamp 2 + Winamp3 = Winamp 5. I suggest you give it more of a shot, again, it's basically an enhanced version of Winamp 2.
I've noticed that everywhere as well... What causes that? Is it simply that they'd rather their goods stayed in the country or is it a more practical reason?
Dammit, RIAA, you can't just change your name and cross the border... can you...?
The Copyright Board decision comes as the Supreme Court of Canada begins a landmark copyright case that will determine whether Internet service providers must pay a tariff for being a conduit for the rampant downloading of free music.
Hmmm... we should also charge them for the lost business from gaming that they create! Oh, and let's tax them so that the telephone industry gets a cut since so many people are using instant messaging and IRC rather than calling people. Hell, let's just shut them down entirely because they can be a conduit for crime!
Remember, what you choose to spend money on is no longer up to you.:^)
I really hope they bring this thing over here, if they have a nice, fast, and functional distribution scheme it would be worth it. I'd prefer it to be able to link via USB to my laptop, but I kinda doubt they'd do that, it would probably be hacked quite quickly;^)
It outputs in NTSC, the article said that. It supports already-existing N64 and SNES games, though the logo in one of the screenshots looked like they had edited it to run on the iQue, so all bets are off whether they support unedited N64 games natively. As for the rest, it all really depends on whether they bring it over to North America.
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You are living in a dreamworld, Neo.
How do you expect to have high-quality MP3s with good recording of instruments and good editing without professional-quality hardware?
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It is open source :^)
He's referring to ISPs NATing off their customers, not customers being restricted by their own routers. Though honestly, I've never heard of an ISP doing this where I live (Ontario, Canada)... Maybe I just haven't been paying attention. Suffice it to say that if my ISP does it, they'll probably be losing me as a customer.
Yes, but your argument is fundamentally flawed in that VeriSign is a corporation not created to monitor and improve the internet, VeriSign is, like most corporations, created to generate profit for itself and improve its value for its shareholders.
Remember, they were the ones who wanted to "commercialize" the root DNS servers and take them "out of the hands of the academics".
With the amount of pr0n out there, I think he's hit it head on ;^)
As said above, OSDN *HAS* open sourced SourceForge. You can obtain it at the Alexandria Development Project on SourceForge. Please try to do some research prior to saying things like this. That said, it is true that like many open source projects, SourceForge can only be used for open source software development. For commercial, closed source development using the SourceForge system, try SourceForge Enterprise Edition from VA Software, the original developers of SourceForge.
If the document contains non-text data, you can also try the following method of retrieval:
DRM cannot truly limit the rights to content of the authorized recipient. There are simply too many ways around it.
Interesting thing, I've heard there's a law here in Canada that prevents caffeine from being placed in beverages that are not "darkly coloured". I thought it was a joke but I look at the can of Mountain Dew next to me and lo and behold, no caffeine in the ingredients. Which is probably a good thing, so we can at least have a little more choice in non-caffeinated pop than the horrible tasting non-caffeine Coke or Pepsi.
Lord knows we couldn't have executives to blame for poor business decisions and layoffs of developers, or marketing to blame for pressure to release a product before Christmas, or management to blame for creating a poor work environment...
Nope. It's all the developers' fault.
Bubble gum! Genious!
> embedded pictures
You wont.
Obviously the needs of the user aren't important in your world.
Duke Nukem Forever: Possibly the most ironic game name ever conceived ;^)
The point here is that it should be his choice as to how he wants to store his legitimate content.
The problem isn't the nut with the machine gun
It is to the victim.
Hi, I'm Canadian. Seen Bowling For Columbine recently? Interesting how the most gun deaths, by far, come from the US.
In answering your question, am I worried about a gunman walking into the McDonald's near where I live, my response would be "not in the least". And I'll have to give Michael Moore credit for this one; your media plays a large part in it. Living near the border, I get a lot of American television stations, and all of their news programs seem to start off with shootings or some form of violence. Honestly, I haven't watched the local news lately, but I doubt I'd be seeing much of that.
Nonetheless, I object to your saying that a society without the Second Amendment translates into a "restrictive, totalitarian, authoritative government," and that said society would be your only alternative from living in the United States. We're democratic here, we have free health care (though it sucks), we elect our own leaders, and yes, you can obtain guns with proper licensing. The only thing is, we don't generally think of having the guns there for use against other human beings (at least, not any of the general population that I know). The very point of a democratic system is that if we don't like our leadership we vote them out or break the law if we can't. For example, if we needed weapons to fight a corrupt dictatorship that had taken over our government, we'd get them one way or another, since likely, even if we had a law or constitutional guarantee that we could obtain one, said dictator would probably repeal it.
Anyway, rant over. There's a lot wrong with your argument there, IMHO. And I personally don't need an automatic weapon to feel safe.
Oh, come on. They're just saying that they may or may not use your input, and don't have to pay you for it. It's this little thing called COMMON SENSE. It's not even written in legalese!
What, in that agreement, specifies that you are restricted from doing something?
Maybe it can finally learn to speak english then ;^)
What prevents someone who's being sued for having SCO code from saying, in closed court, of course, "OK, we'll replace it"? And then, perhaps, release their changed code to the public, not necessarily identifying the SCO code but just showing possible replacements inside Linux that people could place?
I just wait for them to sue a Linux end-user... should be fun.
I disagree. The Winamp 5 beta is basically Winamp 2 with modern skin support, a media library, and several new add-ons. Basically, Nullsoft listened to what people said when they released Winamp3 (basically that it was a huge RAM hog and was way too bloated), and took most of the good features of Winamp3 and merged them back into Winamp 2. Hence, Winamp 2 + Winamp3 = Winamp 5. I suggest you give it more of a shot, again, it's basically an enhanced version of Winamp 2.
When will US voters realize that they outnumber the RIAA and record companies? ;^)
I've noticed that everywhere as well... What causes that? Is it simply that they'd rather their goods stayed in the country or is it a more practical reason?
Dammit, RIAA, you can't just change your name and cross the border... can you...?
:^)
The Copyright Board decision comes as the Supreme Court of Canada begins a landmark copyright case that will determine whether Internet service providers must pay a tariff for being a conduit for the rampant downloading of free music.
Hmmm... we should also charge them for the lost business from gaming that they create! Oh, and let's tax them so that the telephone industry gets a cut since so many people are using instant messaging and IRC rather than calling people. Hell, let's just shut them down entirely because they can be a conduit for crime!
Remember, what you choose to spend money on is no longer up to you.
Indeed, I would too :^)
;^)
I really hope they bring this thing over here, if they have a nice, fast, and functional distribution scheme it would be worth it. I'd prefer it to be able to link via USB to my laptop, but I kinda doubt they'd do that, it would probably be hacked quite quickly
It outputs in NTSC, the article said that. It supports already-existing N64 and SNES games, though the logo in one of the screenshots looked like they had edited it to run on the iQue, so all bets are off whether they support unedited N64 games natively. As for the rest, it all really depends on whether they bring it over to North America.
You are living in a dreamworld, Neo. How do you expect to have high-quality MP3s with good recording of instruments and good editing without professional-quality hardware?